Month: February 2008

Reading Time: 1 minuteFormer chief mediator between the rebel Lords Resistance Army and the Uganda government, Betty Bigombe has said the leader of the rebel group, Joseph Kony will not surrender. This is despite an impending comprehensive peace deal that could be finalized this week in which the rebels would agree to give up arms. Betty Oyella Bigombe

Reading Time: 4 minutesPodiums with beaming politicians, press conferences and congratulatory letters to the editor with the familiar words “ the end of the Northern Uganda conflict” “ one of the worlds worst humanitarian conflicts” will no doubt accompany the signing of several agreements to bring to an end the 20-year rebellion led by reclusive Acholi fundamentalist and

Reading Time: 3 minutesAN estimated 189 fighters of the Joseph Kony-led Lord’s Resistance Army have arrived in the Central African Republic, Daily Monitor has learnt. Intelligence information obtained by Daily Monitor indicates that the group, which comprises women, children and fighters, set off for the Central Africa Republic, CAR, on February 12 – from the Assembly point of

Reading Time: 1 minuteUN agencies in southern Sudan have started distribution of food and other items to more than thousand Sudanese following attacks by suspected Ugandan rebels. The World Food Programme (WFP) and UNICEF began distributing food and non-food items (NFIs) in Juba on 20 February to 1,632 internally displaced persons (IDPs), who had fled their homes due

Reading Time: 2 minutesVery little attention has accompanied attacks on civilians in Southern Sudan blamed by victims and local authorities on the Lords Resistance Army. Below is a story by Juba Post. Attention has instead been focussed on the ongoing Juba Peace talks between the LRA and the government of Uganda. An agreement between the two parties has

Reading Time: 2 minutesSeveral attacks, the fiercest being on the market town of Kajo Keji at the Ugandan-Sudan border have been blamed on the Lords Resistance Army. However days later the LRA were also reported to be moving women and children from their settlement camps in Garamba National Forest in DRC. The motive for the attacks and abductions

Reading Time: 1 minuteTo colleagues who said the earlier post of Professor Barkan’s view of the Kenyan situation was helpful here is his testimony on the Foreign Relations Sub-committee on Africa at Capitol Hill. barkan-testimony-on-kenya-for-2-7-08-revised.doc

Reading Time: 2 minutesHUNDREDS of Lords Resistance Army rebels have been seen moving towards the Central African Republic, a Senior Sudanese official has said.Speaking to Daily Monitor via a satellite telephone, Mr Jeseph Ngere – the Deputy Governor of Western Equatoria Province – said the LRA seemed to be shifting camp. “We have seen hundreds of LRA rebels,

Reading Time: 1 minuteA judge in Spain has issued international arrest warrants for 40 Rwandan soldiers accused of mass killings following the 1994 genocide. Judge Fernando Andreu also indicted them for the murder of nine Spanish citizens, including six missionaries. He said he had evidence implicating Rwanda’s current President Paul Kagame, who has immunity from prosecution. Under Spanish

Reading Time: 2 minutesKeeping with our earlier prediction at the beginning of this crisis the use of force in Kenya is bound to impose strains on a military that has been so far able to stay out of partisan crisis. As the story goes if divisions do emerge in the armed forces- the Kenyan story will truly have